YAPHANK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Going into a hot summer weekend, residents in one Long Island community are dreading being outdoors, but not for obvious reasons. They say a nearby landfill stinks and their town wants to make it even bigger.

“The additional $2 million in revenue would be equivalent to a 10-percent tax increase or the elimination of approximately 25 full-time positions,” Lesko said in a statement.

No one wants layoffs and higher taxes, but people who live near the landfill said they are bearing an unfair burden when landfills all over the world are closing, not growing.

An environmental group has joined the opposition.

“Landfills are an old, antiquated, archaic way of dealing with our garbage that often cause pollution,” said Adrienne Esposito, of the Citizen’s Campaign for the Environment.

Residents said when the landfill was built in the 1970s, they were promised it would be a third of the size. Now, they said it takes in trash from as far away as New Jersey — trashing their quality of life.

“It’s like it’s this nightmare just hanging over us. Fifty feet higher means more dust, more smell, more stink,” Jennifer Clement said.

The decision is now in hands of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

In the meantime, residents said they’ll make their own stink. They’ve hired an attorney and said they’ll fight the landfill expansion in court.

Brookhaven officials said the landfill expansion will bring in $120 million in revenue at the end of 20 years.